Deltona, FL – A Daytona State College student is behind bars after admitting it was a joke when he wrote a bomb threat on a white board at the school’s Deltona campus last week.
As of 4:30pm Tuesday, 21-year-old Jaime Morales-Osorio of Deltona is held on $50,000 bond at Volusia County Jail on a felony charge of making a false bomb report at the campus location on 2351 Providence Boulevard.
VCSO spokesman Gary Davidson says Morales-Osorio confessed to writing the threat when questioned by investigators at DSC’s Deltona campus earlier in the day.
“He initially denied being responsible for writing the message, but later apologized to investigators for lying and admitted he did it,” Davidson added. “Morales-Osorio told investigators he was bored and didn’t mean any harm and that it was just supposed to be a joke.”
That “joke” – discovered on a dry erase board inside the main building last Thursday afternoon – led to the main building and portables being evacuated soon afterward, sending all evacuees to nearby Deltona City Hall while around 20 VCSO deputies and Bomb Squad members combed the campus with bomb-sniffing dogs.
“The message indicated that a bomb had been placed in the student office and the college was going to blow up,” Davidson noted. “The Sheriff’s Office cordoned off the perimeter and launched a search of the buildings and parking lot.”
The all-clear was sounded several hours later after deputies found no bombs and no other threats, but what deputies did find on campus security video later on helped them catch Morales-Osorio, according to Davidson.
“Surveillance video captured images of a male hanging around the hallway near the white board,” Davidson stated. “He was identified as Morales-Osorio.”
VCJ records show Morales-Osorio was also arrested last March 29th on a child abuse charge.
Jaime Morales-Osorio (mugshot courtesy VCJ)
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